Cisco Patches 48 Firewall Vulnerabilities with Two CVSS 10 Flaws

Cisco published a bundled advisory addressing 48 vulnerabilities across its Secure Firewall platforms, including two CVSS 10 flaws in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center — an authentication bypass (CVE-2026-20079) and an insecure deserialization leading to remote code execution (CVE-2026-20131) that can result in root-level compromise; no temporary mitigations exist and organizations are urged to apply the provided patches immediately.